I agree. The Fediverse was an idea founded with good intentions, but in practice it's a dead end.

It was started to make syndication of posts between servers easier, so you wouldn't have to have one massive server farm operated by a single huge company that would censor everyone. However, since most of these sites are hosted by teen armchair commies who ban anyone they dislike, most comments don't get shared to other servers. If you create an account on one server, that account either gets banned there, in which case you can no longer post and your existing posts aren't seen anywhere. Or most other servers ban you, in which case your posts don't show up anywhere else. Either way, it defeats the point of a decentralized syndication network.

So, in practice, Lemmy just boils down to an even more toxic and more heavily censored version of Reddit, but with hardly any users, so the content is even worse.

I think even Gab tried to plug into it at one point, many years ago. But then all the armchair commies refused to network with it and blocked every single Gab user. Now Gab has more users than the rest of the Fediverse combined. Opsie!